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BERLIN (Reuters) - German exports and imports dropped much more than expected in May, data showed on Tuesday, coming on the heels of other soft indicators that have signalled Europe's largest economy is losing momentum. Exports - the traditional backbone of Germany's economy - struggled last year and fell in three of the first five months this year, weighing on overall growth and making the economy reliant on imports. They, however, slumped in May. Figures from the Federal Statistics Office showed seasonally-adjusted exports fell by 1.1 percent on the month, while imports dropped 3.4 percent, the steepest monthly fall since November 2012.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's industrial output fell 1.8 percent on the month in May, its biggest drop in more than two years, as holiday days ate into working hours, construction slumped and geopolitics weighed, casting a shadow on its role as euro zone motor. The drop was a surprise and sent the euro weaker - the consensus forecast in a Reuters poll was for industrial output to be unchanged. The economy ministry also slightly downwardly revised April data to -0.3 percent from a previous -0.2 percent.

If you're confused by the battle between Uber and traditional cabbies, consider this: Machine Gun Kelly didn't legitimize bank robbing by using cutting-edge technology to persuade bank tellers to hand over the till. Before Kelly's innovation, bank robbers brandished pistols. But George Kelly favored a Thompson submachine gun, which gave him a nickname and a measure of immortality in Hollywood gangster movies. Still, his 1930s string of heists in Minnesota, Iowa and Washington didn't invalidate the biblical commandment: "Thou shalt not steal.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister does not expect Ukraine to become part of a 'western alliance' any time soon, he told an Austrian newspaper on Thursday. "Like our American partners, I don't see Ukraine in the western alliance in the foreseeable future," Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Austria's Kurier daily. It wasn't immediately clear if he was referring to the European Union or NATO. Steinmeier, who was due to meet Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz on Thursday, said he agreed with Kurz who has suggested that Ukraine becomes a neutral state, following the post-war Austrian model.

As Germany's Martin Kaymer finished off his eight-stroke U.S. Open victory Sunday, one of his mentors and countrymen, Bernhard Langer , was holed up in a fishing cabin in Alaska, able to watch only on a television the entire compound shared. "We made sure we saw some of that," Langer said Thursday, a day before he returns to competition in the Encompass Championship at North Shore Country Club. "I was thrilled for him to have won two of the biggest tournaments (including The Players Championship)

By Noah Barkin and Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - The Alternative for Germany (AfD) failed to make as big a splash in European elections last month as its eurosceptic counterparts in France and Britain. But that may be about to change. Less than a month after the vote, the party formed last year by a group of renegade academics is on track to establish itself as a permanent force in German politics and a long-term headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrats (CDU)

PINEHURST, N.C. - Martin Kaymer arrived at Pinehurst No. 2 on Sunday afternoon and ducked into the clubhouse with everything he could have asked for. Three days of masterful golf had given Kaymer a five-shot cushion in the U.S. Open and the needed confidence to close out his second major. But Kaymer also knew what came with that. The spotlight. The nerves. The pressure. So he forecast for caddie Craig Connolly what they were in for. "This round will be very, very difficult," Kaymer warned.

PINEHURST, N.C. - Keegan Bradley and Jason Dufner played a U.S. Open course Friday. On their next-to-last hole, Dufner's drive found a fairway bunker. Bradley's approach from the sandy waste area sputtered halfway to the green. Meanwhile, you half-expected to see their playing partner, Martin Kaymer, lounging on a beach chair, sipping a glass of sweet tea. For him, playing golf meant just that - playing. Not grinding. He parred that eighth hole, a par-4 of 496 yards, with his typical precision: bombing one into the fairway, reaching the green in regulation, avoiding a three-putt.

PINEHURST, N.C. - Martin Kaymer's opening 65 at the U.S. Open on Thursday proved so extraordinary and error-free, it surprised even him. Kaymer admitted he had no visions of ever going that low in this tournament on this course. And he was so realistic after his opening charge at Pinehurst No. 2 that he offered a disclaimer. "No one should really expect me to shoot another 5-under-par the next three rounds," Kaymer warned Thursday evening. "I don't. " But then Friday morning, he got hot again.

More than 100 emergency workers struggled Tuesday to rescue an injured man trapped after a rock fall in a 3,200-foot-deep cave in southern Germany in an operation that could take days or weeks to bring him out. The 52-year-old man, one of the researchers who discovered the cave, suffered injuries to his head and chest in a rock fall early Sunday and cannot climb back to the surface on his own as the ascent involves steep shafts and narrow tunnels....